Job Description
Global Air Logistics Healthcare Product Lead

It's more than a job

As a member of the Freight Forwarding team Kuehne+Nagel, you will play a key role in transporting goods, optimising processes, and fulfilling our customers' promises. And by transporting medicines, toys and important machine parts, you are not only delivering goods, you are making small and big moments possible for people all around the world. At Kuehne+Nagel, our contribution counts in more ways than we imagine.

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As Global Air Logistics Healthcare Product Lead, you will play a key role in the further development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Kuehne+Nagel’s global healthcare air logistics product portfolio.

Working within the Global Air Logistics Product Management team, you will focus on translating customer requirements into practical logistics solutions, driving global product implementation, and improving processes across our international network. You will connect global, regional, and local teams to ensure a consistent approach to product delivery, while identifying opportunities to improve service quality, customer experience, and commercial performance.

How you create impact

  • Drive global product implementation: Coordinate the rollout and adoption of healthcare air logistics solutions across the global network, working closely with country teams and local stations.
  • Translate customer needs into solutions: Turn customer requirements into practical, scalable logistics solutions that meet customer expectations and operational needs.
  • Improve existing products and processes: Identify opportunities to enhance the healthcare product portfolio, challenge existing ways of working, and drive continuous improvement.
  • Coordinate cross-functional projects: Structure and manage product initiatives from planning through implementation, ensuring clear responsibilities, timelines, and communication.
  • Connect global and local stakeholders: Collaborate with sales, operations, product management, pricing, and quality teams to ensure consistent product implementation across countries.
  • Support commercial development: Work with sales and key account teams on customer solutions, pricing activities, tenders, and premium healthcare services.
  • Support product quality and compliance: Partner with QSHE teams to promote compliance with applicable GDP and CEIV Pharma requirements and maintain high service quality.
  • Share product expertise and best practices: Support internal training, document and communicate processes clearly, and help teams implement product standards consistently across the network.

What we would like you to bring

  • Several years of experience in air logistics.

  • Experience in product management, project management, product implementation, or process improvement within logistics or supply chain environments.

  • A good understanding of airfreight operations and the ability to translate customer requirements into practical logistics solutions.

  • Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to structure initiatives, coordinate implementation, and drive projects through to completion.

  • Knowledge of healthcare logistics, cold chain transportation, temperature-controlled solutions, and passive packaging is an advantage.

  • Familiarity with healthcare quality standards and regulatory requirements, including GDP and CEIV Pharma.

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across operational teams, senior management, and international stakeholders.

  • Strong commercial acumen and customer focus, with the ability to understand customer needs, build trusted relationships, identify business opportunities, and translate them into solutions that support business growth.

  • A proactive, structured, and solution-oriented mindset, combined with strong English skills and the ability to work effectively in a global, cross-functional environment.

What's in it for you

At Kuehne+Nagel, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your expertise, influence global healthcare logistics standards, and shape innovative solutions for some of the world’s largest customers.

We offer a collaborative, digital, and customer-focused environment where you will work with motivated colleagues across the world. The preferred locations for this role are Frankfurt, Brussels, and Paris Charles de Gaulle. However, we are also open to candidates based in other locations across Europe, with a hybrid and remote working arrangement to be discussed.

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

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